Beyond Jennifer, Jason...

[grasshulaskirt.livejournal.com]

In the book ' Beyond Jennifer, Jason, Madison and Montana' one of the mentioned trends was upper class families naming their babies something and 15 years later or so, all the other classes follow suit.

My name is Emma, and while I barely know any other Emma's my age, I hear it being screamed in the supermarket constantly today.

Aside from the meaning and fortune of a name, popularity is the most important factor for us. Third is versatility, can you pronounce it in French/ German etc..What about you?

P.s using the baby name trends when I met my friends 13 year old daughter, Kayleigh, I said " everyone is named Kayleigh, Madison or McKenzie these days" my friend said " Madison and McKenzie are her best friends"!

Comments

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

It's very interesting you mention not knowing any Emma's your own age...I have a good friend named Emma who is 17. I also have good friends Mckenna and Madison who are 22 and 19 respectively. I don't really know any children with these names.

That's funny about your friend's daughter!

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

Popularity is something we considered but then decided it wasn't enough of a factor to turn us away from our favorite names so long as they had meaning to us. My daughters are (fn,mn) Emilie Claire, 4, and Hannah Paige, 2.5. So far we have not met any other kids with those names but I'm sure it will happen.

In my daughter's class of 3-5 year olds there is no other Emilie (or Emily, or Emma.) There are 2 Keegan's and a couple Jayden's but other than that, no horrible or severely overused names. No Aden, even! I'm kind of impressed. ;) Oh...but there is one McKenzie. Ick.

[stormqueen280.livejournal.com]

I find it important that the name is not tacky (McKenzie, Jayden), but I don't know about popularity. I mean, Sophia is on my top five. Isabel and Eva are also getting pretty popular, but that doesn't turn me off. I just like those names a lot.

Versatility is very important for me, too. Some of my favorite names definitely don't work in my language. They remain names I like, but I could never use them.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Popularity is definitely a factor to the names I like now (though, by the time I actually have children, all of their popularities could flip). Less so with boys, because I do like a few really classic boy names, I think, but I would definitely drop a girl name like a hot potato (or at least push it to middle name status) if it got too popular.

I wasn't going to say it was the most important factor, but since I couldn't care less about what names actually mean, I guess it kind of is. Besides whether or not I actually like it. I guess ethnic origins or just origins in general are slightly important to me, because I adore the name Santiago, but I would never use it because I think it would just be ridiculous on a little white boy.

[hwar.livejournal.com]

When I was naming my daughter, lack of popularity was a naming criteria that was very important to me. Now, however, it is less important to me to be uncommon. While I'd probably steer clear of top 20 names, I'd use a common name if 1) I REALLY loved it and 2) it was a classic name that had been historically popular as well as recently popular (names like Sarah, Matthew, etc). This is especially true of boy names since there are just plain fewer good ones. These days more names are in circulation though, so even if a name is top 10, there aren't THAT many children getting them.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Before the Aiden craze, I met a guy my age named Aiden and I thought it was just the weirdest name ever, and that it must have been foreign or something. And now I can't escape Aidens and Jaydens and Caydens and Braydens!

I've recently met a lot of Madisons, a few Kaylees and a McKenzie, all my age, and all I could think was, "Those names are for babies!"